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Title
De geboorte van een plein : de analoge en digitale tekstgenese van het incipit in Gie Bogaerts roman Roosevelt = The birth of a square : the analog and digital text genesis of the incipit in Gie Bogaert's novel Roosevelt
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Abstract
The beginning is a foundational element in literary fiction: it is the entrance into a textual world. In this article, I analyse the genesis of the first chapter of Gie Bogaert's born-digital novel Roosevelt (2016), which was logged with the keystroke logging software Inputlog. The beginning ofRoosevelt supplies important information for the understanding of the textual world, takes on a key role in the 'recentering' of the reader to this world, and facilitates an immersive reading experience through the use of the second -person singular, and through making an appeal to the readers' sensory and spatial imagination. Focusing on the textual development, I ask the question how four important aspects of the novel were implemented in the first chapter during the writing process. I will demonstrate how Bogaert experimented with explicating these aspects, but later decided to refer to them rather implicitly. Overall, this analysis demonstrates how Inputlog, in case it is used by literary authors, may facilitate textual genetic research on present-day works of literature.
Language
Dutch
Source (journal)
Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde / Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde te Leiden. - Amsterdam :; Hilversum :; Leiden, 1948, currens
Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde. - Leiden, 1881, currens
Publication
Amsterdam :; Hilversum :; Leiden : Amsterdam University Press; Uitgeverij Verloren; E.J. Brill , 2021
ISSN
2212-0521
DOI
10.5117/TNTL2021.2.002.BEKI
Volume/pages
137 :2 (2021) , p. 122-149
ISI
000685312500002
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